Iāve seen it >100 times, but Iāve never been about to capture it until now.
Presumably, it is spawning (but I canāt be positive). But what is the green cloud, and what is the smaller blue squiggly???
#blackwater, #blackwaterdiving #polychaete

Talk about a risky ride š This tiny pelagic nudibranch was filmed on a blackwater dive, hanging onto the arm of a jellyfish as it drifted through the open ocean. #BlackwaterDiving #Nudibranch #MarineLife
Iāve seen it >100 times, but Iāve never been about to capture it until now.
Presumably, it is spawning (but I canāt be positive). But what is the green cloud, and what is the smaller blue squiggly???
#blackwater, #blackwaterdiving #polychaete
Today while looking over my June 2025 Aliens photos for the first time, I found it funny that Iāve become so bougie that a fish so ārareā & beautiful has been relegated to āone shot and move onš„±ā status after now having seen hundreds.
What a good mama!
A 1ā #oxycephalus #amphipod is raising her brood on a drifting section of a Venus girdle #ctenophore.
Shot on scuba, off Okinawa, out over the deep abyss where its several thousand feet deep, while drifting with the plankton, at night
#blackwater #blackwaterdiving